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Parkway Drive, 2012 (x)

[parkwayevird]

[waking-hell]

Parkway Drive // Glitch

[king-for-a-weekend]

Parkway Drive - Vice Grip 

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thypically parkway 

Luke - 2011 Jeff - 2015 Jia - 2019

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Via Parkway Drive’s Instagram

[hiddenlakes]

parkway drive @ tuska open air, helsinki july 1st, 2018

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[rumorednightspress]

RNP Gallery: Parkway Drive - Philadelphia, PA (June 26th, 2017) Venue: Theater of Living Arts Photographer: Liz Peterson (IG: @lizpetersonphoto)

View the full album here!

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Little Parkway Drive Things

Actual Parkway Drive things:

Australian accents!

Bitch, the riffs! The riffs, bitch!

Karma, 2:15-2:46

Romance Is Dead, 4:26-4:38

"So cry me a FUCKING river, BITCH!"

(Some religious vocalizing, then a crescendoing electric guitar) BROTHERS, MY BROTHERS

Wishing Wells

Horizons (the song; I haven't listened to the whole album yet)

Dedicated (You know exactly what part I’m talking about)

Just Winston McCall things:

Australian accent!

Fucking Star Wars nerd

"Ah fuck!"

"Skin bat, lad."

When his scream cracks during live performances

When he speaks in a higher pitch during live performances (“A generation born”)

He loves his wife SO much?????

[thereturnofsidsid03]

My HotGirl™️ Books Wishlist <3

Your Silence Will Not Protect You | Audre Lorde | Essays & Poems                                                                                                          “Lorde kept speaking up by writing about the ongoing struggle to define and seek a world in which we can all flourish” - RO Kwon

Valley of the Dolls | Jacqueline Susaan | Novel                                  “About the most fun you can have without a prescription!” - Julie Burchill

Girl, Woman, Other | Bernardine Evaristo | “Fusion Fiction”         “Girl, Woman, Other is about struggle, but it is also about love, joy and imagination” - Micha Frazer-Carroll

Bunny | Mona Awad | Novel                                                                  “Jon Swift + Witches of Eastwick + Kelly 'Get In Trouble' Link + Mean Girls + Creative Writing Degree Hell! No punches pulled, no hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled! O Bunny you are sooo genius! --Margaret Atwood            

Talking As Fast As I Can | Lauren Graham | Autobiographical & Essays                                                                                                      “This book is like a cozy night in, catching up with your best friend, laughing and swapping stories, and, of course, talking as fast as you can”- Booktopia

Trick Mirror | Jia Tolentino | Non-Fiction Essays                           “There is one guarantee with this book: it will make you stop and think ... Tolentino's writing will leave you feeling a bit more humble, and a bit more intelligent” -Independent

Her Body And Other Parties | Carmen Maria Machado | Short-Story Collection                                                                                         “Deliciously weird and dark and erotic and queer and smart and full of desire, and profoundly original, this is about the alienation of being a woman in a way you've never read before”- The Pool        

Little Weirds | Jenny Slate | Essay Collection                                       “This book is like a stovetop goulash, delicious and varied ingredients, prepared perfectly and excellent with bread...I'm sorry, I lost track of the simile” -Amy Sedaris

Boy Parts | Eliza Clark | Novel                                                               “The novel, a debut by the 26-year-old from Newcastle, will make most readers howl with laughter and/or shut their eyes in horror”- Chloë Ashby

Normal People + Conversations Between Friends | Sally Rooney | Novels                                                                                                 “What makes Rooney's books so captivating and impossible to put down is the way she crafts characters and dialogue-at times, the conversations in her books can seem so real that you almost feel like you're eavesdropping on something you shouldn't be” - Vanity Fair

Homesick for Another World + Death in Her Hands + Eileen | Ottessa Moshfegh | Short-Story Collection/Novels                           "Dark, confident, prickling stories . . . . Moshfegh uses ugliness as if it were an intellectual and moral Swiss Army knife . . . Her stories veer close to myth in a manner that can resemble fiction by the English writer Angela Carter. There's some Flannery O'Connor, Harry Crews and Katherine Dunn in her interest in freaks and quasi-freaks . . . At her best, she has a wicked sort of command. Sampling her sentences is like touching a mildly electrified fence. There is a good deal of humor in "Homesick for Another World," and the chipper tone can be unnerving. It's like watching someone grin with a mouthful of blood." - Dwight Garner, New York Times

Everything I Know About Love | Dolly Alderton | Memoir          “Steeped in furiously funny accounts of one-night stands, ill-advised late-night taxi journeys up the M1, grubby flat-shares and the beauty of female friendships, as Alderton joyfully booze-cruises her way through her twenties”- Metro     

Black Swans + Sex & Rage + LA Woman | Eve Babitz | Stories/Novels                                                                                           "On the page, Babitz is pure pleasure--a perpetual-motion machine of no-stakes elation and champagne fizz . . . A mesmerizing account of a young woman trying to decide what to do about her own premonitions"- The New Yorker

Play It As It Lays + The White Album | Joan Didion | Novel/Essay Collection                                                                              “A pioneer of New Journalism, she brilliantly chronicled America's cultural and political life”- Guardian                  

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Nemegtonykus citus

By Ripley Cook 

Etymology: Nemget Claw

First Described By: Lee et al., 2019

Classification: Dinosauromorpha, Dinosauriformes, Dracohors, Dinosauria, Saurischia, Eusaurischia, Theropoda, Neotheropoda, Averostra, Tetanurae, Orionides, Avetheropoda, Coelurosauria, Tyrannoraptora, Maniraptoromorpha, Maniraptoriformes, Maniraptora, Alvarezsauria, Alvarezsauroidea, Alvarezsauridae, Parvicursorinae

Status: Extinct

Time and Place: 70 million years ago, in the Maastrichtian of the Late Cretaceous 

Nemegtonykus is known from the Nemegt Formation of Ömnögovi, Mongolia 

Physical Description: Nemegtonykus is known from a partial skeleton, showing a one meter long, lightly built bipedal animal. Like other Alvarezsaurs, it had a long tail and long, thin legs. We don’t know much about its arms or head, but it’s reasonable to suppose it - like other Alvarezsaurs - would have had single thumb claws, and no other digits on its arms; and a small head, ending in a very pointed snout. Parvicursorines, like Nemegtonykus, were of the small and lightly-built vein of Alvarezsaurs - and the apparently much more diverse group - rather than the heavily built Patagonykines. As a small birdie dinosaur, Nemegtonykus would have been covered in feathers, and possibly even had small wing-like feathers on its arms as display structures.

Diet: Alvarezsaur diets is a bit of question - one of the most popular hypotheses is that Alvarezsaurs are insectivores, however there is still a question and they may have been more generalist omnivores. 

By José Carlos Cortés 

Behavior: Nemegtonykus, as an Alvarezsaur, would have been extremely specialized in speed - its legs were well built for running, both to escape predators and potentially search for prey. It also would have been fairly good at hopping, able to leap out of the way in times of danger or distress. It is possible that the little claws of Nemegtonykus would have been useful in digging up insects or other sources of food out of hard to reach places. Nemegtonykus, like other Alvarezsaurs, would have been a very skittish and anxious animal, using its ability to run to escape danger as quickly as possible. The feathers would have been useful both in thermoregulation (given its small size) and display to other members of the species; and it probably took care of its young to some extent.

Ecosystem: Nemegtonykus lived in the famous and diverse Nemegt Formation, an environment filled to bursting with different kinds of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. This was a vast wetland, flooded with river channels that created extensive lakes, mudflats, and floodplains, much like the modern Okavango Delta in Botswana. This swamp field was surrounded by extensive coniferous forests, where the ground became somewhat drier. This was an area of animals highly specialized for their environment - especially creatures specialized for feeding on water plants, making them all various kinds of vaguely-duck-like animals. There was Duck Satan Deinocheirus, and the ornithomimosaurs Gallimimus and Answerimimus who also had duck-like bills for feeding on soft plants. There was the Hadrosaur (Duck-Billed Dinosaur) Saurolophus, which also fed on soft, mushy plants; and the actual early duck-like thing, Teviornis. In terms of non-duck dinosaurs, there was the large tyrannosaur Tarbosaurus and the smaller Alioramus; Troodontids like Tochisaurus, Zanabazar, and Borogovia; a million kind of chickenparrots like Avimimus, Elmisaurus, Conchoraptor, Nemegtomaia, Nomingia, and Rinchenia; the Hesperornithine Brodavis; Pachycephalosaurs like Homalocephale and Prenocephale; Ankylosaurs such as Tarchia and Saichania; the titanosaur Nemegtosaurus; the Therizinosaur Therizinosaurus; the raptor Adasaurus; and another Alvarezsaur - Mononykus. There was also an Azhdarchid pterosaur, the mammal Buginbaatar, and a variety of crocodilians and turtles. 

By Scott Reid 

Other: Nemegtonykus was found alongside a specimen of Mononykus, potentially indicating that different Alvarezsaurs potentially socialized with each other, or at least didn’t avoid each other within their shared habitats. This may also indicate a level of niche partitioning between different Alvarezsaurs.

~ By Meig Dickson

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Parkway Drive // Wild Eyes

[parkwayevird]

"Rehearsed and ready for our first show of the year tomorrow.

See you soon Manila! 🇵🇭"

-Parkway Drive 22.03.24

[thebowerypresents]

Killswitch Engage and Parkway Drive Headline Terminal 5 Tomorrow Night

Metal acts Killswitch Engage and Parkway Drive will obliterate eardrums when they come to New York City on their joint Collapse the World Tour. Parkway Drive will be touring in support of their latest album, Reverence (stream it here), out last May on Epitaph Records. With six full-length albums under their belt and more than 15 years of music, the Australian five-piece has won the hearts of fans across the world with their heavy breakdowns, guttural anthems and sheer power onstage. “This coheadlining tour with Killswitch Engage is a landmark for Parkway Drive in North America,” said frontman Winston McCall in a tour statement. “Having smashed our way across the land for over a decade now, it is a humbling and defining moment to be sharing this slot with true heavy metal icons and personal heroes.”

Massachusetts metalcore outfit Killswitch Engage have put out seven studio long-players over the course of 20 years but the guys in the band have been friends for much longer than that. The quintet signed with Metal Blade Records and will potentially have new material this year. No release date has been set, but the band’s social media posts have revealed that they are tracking almost two dozen songs and will eventually sort those down for a forthcoming album. “After having the pleasure of destroying stages all over Australia with the Parkway guys just over a month ago, we couldn’t be more stoked to share the stage with them once again, this time in the States,” vocalist Jesse Leach said in the tour statement. Catch Killswitch Engage and Parkway Drive on Thursday night at Terminal 5. —Elizabeth Ramanand | @Lizochka

[king-for-a-weekend]

Parkway Drive - Prey

[benvantasopinions-blog]

I Have An Opinion On - Reverence by Parkway Drive (2018) THE INTRO Iconic Australian metalcore band Parkway Drive have come again with a new musical experience that has been getting great critical reviews but has split the fanbase down the middle. While I do enjoy reviewing albums that came out a long time ago, it’s always nice to have something new to talk about, and given that my experience with Parkway Drive is minimal (having never listened to a full PWD album before), I decided now would be a good time to hop on the hype train. This is their sixth studio album, released on May 4th, 2018. THE REVIEW Reverence opens with the absolutely incredible lead single “Wishing Wells”, a song with instrumentation, vocals, and lyrics that sound like something straight out of a God of War soundtrack. The spoken word intro gives the opening this great sense of anticipation, and when it explodes it is absolutely beautiful with a constantly soaring lead riff. Winston McCall’s vocals are glorious all throughout the song, but when the chorus hits they just get disgustingly good. Of course, the breakdown towards the end is pretty good too, after all, this is Parkway Drive we’re talking about, and all in all this is a perfect opening track that really sets the expectations high. The next song “Prey” has a opening that kinda reminds me of early Linkin Park, but it doesn’t take long for it to blow up. This song goes more in line with the “arena rock/metal” sound the band hinted towards leading up to the album’s release, with crowd chanting choruses and more straight-forward instrumentation, making it perfect to be the album’s third single. I can see why people are somewhat angry with this kind of sound, but there are definitely worse ways to do a song like this (for example, Five Finger Death Punch). Up next is “Absolute Power”, which begins really bass heavy, something I’m happy to hear, but it quickly picks up with a really nice fucking riff. This song has the “loud chorus, soft verse” style that I’ve heard a hundred times before, but I don’t hate hearing it here. One thing I love about this song is that the bass comes back every once in a while, and I’m always happy to hear it. Track four is “Cemetery Bloom”, which is a surprisingly somber, almost gospel-esque track, complete with choir, that I wouldn’t expect for a band like Parkway Drive, but it’s epic as hell. Most of the instrumentation is handled by a string section, and while the rest of the band does come in a bit towards the last third of the track, the transition seems natural as it doesn’t turn into a heavy song, and it keeps the same style throughout the song. Afterwards is “The Void”, the second single released prior to the whole album, and the previous track has this nice transition to it where there’s no break. This is basically an arena-metalcore song, more so than “Prey”. The main riff and drum rhythm here is just an air-jam waiting to happen, as it gets stuck in your head pretty quickly. What I was NOT expecting was a glorious fucking guitar solo in place of the usual breakdown, especially on a Parkway Drive song. Track six, “I Hope You Rot”, starts off with some really nice drums, and is a faster-paced song. With lyrics condemning the Church for child abuse, this is one of the stronger-hitting tracks on the album from a songwriting standpoint. The breakdown after the “I hope you rot” line is melodic, yet still hard-hitting. The next track, “Shadow Boxing”, is the most confusing song on the album, even including “Cemetery Bloom”. There is some legitmate rapping from Winston McCall here, and it’s somewhat jarring to hear with vocals performances like “Wishing Wells” being on the same album, but it’s interesting nonetheless. I love the instrumentation here, as it blends strings, piano, and the band themselves really well, with a really somber section in the last third of the song. After this is “In Blood”, another song full of crowd chanting and powerful instrumentation alongside the “arena rock/metal” sound. Apart from the cool little intro and outro sections, as well as the nice breakdown towards the end, this song honestly doesn’t give me much to talk about. Afterwards is the penultimate track, as well as longest song on the album, “Chronos”, clocking in at 6:20. I like the distant-sounding opening this song has before it explodes into a nice blend of heaviness and melody. Being a longer song, I wasn’t too surprised to hear another surprisingly nice guitar solo, which then slowed down into a more somber section. However, after this section came a breakdown incorporating both heavy riffs and melody that leads into the song’s outro. It all works really well, and the string section that comes in towards the end only makes it better. This brings us to the closing track, “The Colour Of Leaving”, a slow paced song carried by Winston’s quiet vocals and a lone guitar. This song has a sense of isolation with it, with the sound of footsteps and wind ambiance throughout the song, and the string section that comes in at the halfway point adds to the somber tone of the track. It’s a really nice closing track, and it caps off the album rather nicely. FINAL THOUGHTS Albums like these are the reason I’m happy I’m not a metal elitist. Bands should be allowed to change, and while sometimes that doesn’t work out for the best, this is a case of a band’s change in sound being good. It might not be as good as the band’s previous material, but this album is good for what it is. While there are some somewhat generic arena style songs here, they’re still decent songs, while the high points are really high, “Wishing Wells” especially. I understand if you’re not happy with the direction the band is going, but this is still a rather enjoyable album. Give it a try, you might enjoy it. SCORE - 7/10 BEST TRACKS - Wishing Wells, Cemetery Bloom, The Void, Chronos, and The Colour Of Leaving. WORST TRACKS - Prey, I guess, Shadow Boxing (it’s interesting though, I’ll give it that), and In Blood.